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Show EARLY CLOSING OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The board of education has decided to close the schools of the city as early as May 28, or a week earlier than usual. This will deprive our school teachers of one week of service ser-vice and bring their earning abilities as teachers below the ordinary ten bchool months or nine calendar months. We understand there are funds sufficient suf-ficient to continue the school service up to June 4 and. if that lio imn it might be advisable for tho board of education to reconsider its action and give the school teachers a full ten months of teaching and the salary that goes with it. Tho teachers in the Og(fen' schools are paid none too much money for their labors and to cut them down one week in forty weeks means a two and one-half per cent reduction, which they can ill alTord to lose. The board members may have some rood object to be attained which has not been disclosed and. therefore, we advance these views simply for the purpose of obtaining a response and drawing from them their real purpose In cutting short tho school year. |